Robert Jackson

Associate Professor of Law (2010)

Office: Columbia Law School
435 West 116th Street
New York NY 10027
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Detailed Biography

B. A., Philosophy and Economics, B.S. Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Pembroke College, Oxford University, 1999; Master of Public Policy, Harvard University Kennedy School, 2005; M.B.A. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2000; Research Fellow in Law and Economics and Corporate Governance, and Editor of the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog 2006-2008.  Associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and member of the Executive Compensation and Benefits Group, 2008-2009; Principal areas of interest are corporations, securities regulation, contracts and corporate finance, and the empirical study of corporate governance matters.  Publications include A New Model of Administrative Enforcement, 93 VA. L. REV. 1983 (2007) (with David Rosenberg); Executive Pensions, 30 J. CORP. L. 823 (2005) (with Lucian A. Bebchuk) (noted in New York Times (March 2006), The Economist (January 2006, April 2005), Wall Street Journal (July 2005); Note, Rethinking Retroactivity, 118 HARV. L. REV. 1642 (2005); Nine Justices, Ten Years: A Statistical Retrospective, 118 HARV. L. REV. 510 (2004); Comment, State Sentencing Guidelines—Sixth Amendment, 118 HARV. L. REV. 333 (2004) (cited in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 334 (2005) (Breyer, J., dissenting); Appellate Procedure—Force of Circuit Precedent, 117 HARV. L. REV. 719 (2003) with a commentary: Comments on Proposed Rules for Disclosing Executive Retirement Benefits, letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (April 2006) (with Lucian A. Bebchuk & Jesse Fried).